Jerantut and Taman Negara

Alright so I may be a little behind on the blogging but we are doing fun things so it hard to find the time to sit down and write a post, but I am trying to catch up...

As I left off we got the train station in Singapore at 4:30am with almost no one there and about an hour and 20 minutes to early to go through customs. The train ride was good minus that about and two hours into trip someone brough durian onto the train. If you have never heard of durian it is basically the most popular fruit in southeast asian but smells so bad it is illegal to open them in confined spaces and bring them into hotels or airplanes. You never get use to the smell.

We arrive in Jerantut, a stop over to catch the Jetty river boat to the national park in the morning. Not to much in the city besides some stores, atms, Pizza Hut and KFC. The next morning we met with some other travellers and headed upstream (about a 3 hour trip) to the park. You can get there but car but it is not nearly as fun or relaxing.

Boat ride 

Our few days in Taman Negara were spent exploring the park, including a night trek, canopy walk, and hiking to some look outs. Hiking in tropical weather is a workout though, I thought hot yoga made you sweat, this is a whole new ball game. We did get to see a few animals including, monkeys, wild pigs, spiders, insects, deer and scorpions.

Treking route

Monkey at the Park

The last afternoon we visited a local village and learned some of their traditional methods for their nomadic lifestyle including how to make and use a blow pipe for hunting.

Blow pipe - yes I did hit the target.

We then headed to the Perhentians Islands for a little swimming, relaxing and tanning!